introduction cutaneous mucormycosis is a rare opportunistic infection caused by zygomycetes class of fungi that is often fatal, requiring aggressive local control as well as systemic therapy. few cases of mucormycosis were described in patients with liver cirrhosis, mostly rhino-orbital. to our knowledge, only two cases of upper extremity involvement was reported in cirrhosis while a few cases ...

conclusions functional renal impairment in diseases caused by hcv was more important than in diseases caused by hbv. the egfr was statistically lower in cirrhosis secondary to hcv than in hcv chronic hepatitis. results hbv chronic hepatitis, hcv chronic hepatitis, and cirrhosis secondary to these viruses were associated with a reduction of the gfr. the egfr was higher in patients with hbv chron...

Viral hepatitis-induced cirrhosis can progress to decompensated cirrhosis. Clinical decompensation represents a milestone event for the patient with cirrhosis, yet there remains uncertainty regarding precisely how to define this important phenomenon. With the development of broader treatment options for cirrhotic hepatitis patients, efficient identification of liver status before evolving to de...

Introduction: Celiac disease (CD) is a disease that involves many organs including the liver and is caused by autoimmune enteropathy. We aimed to compare the CD frequency between the cryptogenic cirrhosis and cirrhosis due to hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV). Materials and methods: Patients with cryptogenic cirrhosis (n=83), HCV related cirrhosis (n=42) and HBV related cirrho...

The objective of this study was to investigate the metabolic activity gut microbiota in cirrhosis due different variants fatty liver disease (alcoholic vs. non-alcoholic [metabolic-associated] one [AFLD and MAFLD]). present included 24 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 16 MAFLD-related 20 healthy controls. level spectrum short-chain acids (SCFAs) were determined via gas–liquid chromatography. ...

THE definition of cirrhosis is essentially anatomical, with an additional clinical concept. This is based on the "Report of the Board for Classification and Nomenclature of Cirrhosis of the Liver" at the Fifth Pan-American Congress of Gastroenterology in Cuba (Gastroenterology 1956). The cases of cirrhosis in the present study conformed to the criteria laid down at this Congress. The pathologic...

BACKGROUNDS Serum hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) levels are associated with fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection. OBJECTIVES The aim of our study was to evaluate serum HBsAg level as a biomarker for compensated cirrhosis in hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) positive CHB patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS Two-hundred and one HBeAg-positive Chinese CHB patients with or w...

Background and Aim: The prevalence of esophageal varices is variable in studies with a mean 50% seems to be related the stage liver cirrhosis, 30% compensated 60% decompensated cirrhosis. There limited literature from India, which assessed utility MELD CTP score predicting EV patients present study was done compare ability predict grades cirrhosis patients. Results: In 152 patients, age 55.2 ± ...

background to compare the efficacy of a 48 hour infusion of octerotide with a five-day infusion to prevent rebleeding and mortality at one week and one month in patients who present with acute esophageal variceal bleeding. materials and methods patients who presented to emam hospital of ahwaz jundishapur university of medical sciences that were diagnosed with acute variceal bleeding were commen...